After swearing off Freelanders a few years ago I now find myself with Freelander number four. It's out of necessity, not desire, though. My wife's car has been out of commission for a while and will be for some time longer so we were in need of something to keep her going in the meantime. This...

Looks great. Nice finish.

The tow bar is done now. Turned out to be a bit more of a mission than expected. When I offered up the old Disco tow bar it fouled on the underside of the bumper. So I had to take it off and cut about an inch off each side of the cut-out in the bumper to clear it. While I had the bumper off I...

Some much needed maintenance on the steering has been done. The steering box started leaking from the pitman arm seal shortly after I got PD on the road and the steering has been getting incrementally more woolly since. It was getting too bad to put off any longer so I took the steering box out...

Going like a train thanks. Got some updates to post soon.

Back bumper looks very rugged and well made. It'll probably outlast every Disco ever built. Looking forward to seeing them both finished and fitted. No doubt they'll look awesome.

A Defender top shock mount poly bush cut carefully in half fits nicely in the watts linkage centre bush cavity. Did it on mine for a "temporary" fix for the MOT. That was about six months ago and it's still fine. Gets hammered off road so they're doing a good job.

Is it an auto? It might be a start switch. When the xyz switch plays up it can be difficult to start. I had that and just wired a switch direct from the battery to the starter motor solenoid. Got me out of many a pickle.

Just a quick update: finally got my V5 back with all the changes logged!! It's only taken three and a half months. Seems like much longer. I may start a thread in the Disco section detailing my legal journey if anyone's interested.

A few pictures of what I get up to with Project Disco for fun. Shetland Land Rover Club fun day yesterday.

Looks like even if you decide to make it an 18 wheeler it'll still fit on that trailer with room to spare.

Rock sliders now fitted. These were were fitted to my other disco and I've modified them to fit Project Disco. I needed to cut approx 4" off each end to make them the right length then make new end plates and weld them on. Once that was done I took them to a local blasting company and got them...

IVA wouldn't be required but you'd need to go down the "radically altered vehicle" route which isn't really that onerous. I'm going through this process myself currently. Using the 130 chassis and original drive train would give enough points to keep the 130 reg. This is assuming no major mods...

Lack of ARBs isn't an MOT fail. I built mine without them and have HD springs and adjustable dampers. Still handles acceptably on road.

Nice project. Looking forward to seeing it progress. I went the flat bed route with mine.

There's an air compressor unit mounted to the outside of the chassis rail under the passenger side for the air bags, if it's still there.

No rush matey. Just when it's convenient.

Want to do this to mine. Don't suppose you could post more detailed pictures such as where you located the brackets on the inner wings? And what struts did you use?

Some small updates: The fuel gauge started working randomly but it's very erratic and never reads more than half full. It still sometimes doesn't work at all. Had a wild camping weekend with the Shetland Land Rover Club last weekend and slept on the back of the Disco. Just threw a big tarp...

LOLZ.